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unconstraint

[uhn-kuhn-straynt] / ˌʌn kənˈstreɪnt /






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With her kindly unconstraint she reached for one of his hands to test its temperature.

From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Princely unconstraint has the privilege of experiment, and what is frailty in a plebeian is only frolic in a duchess.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

Dyce had not the self-oblivion of entire courtesy; it seemed probable that he would often err in tact; a certain awkwardness marred his personal bearing, which aimed at the modern ideal of flowing unconstraint.

From Our Friend the Charlatan by George Gissing

There is tendency on the part of both the upholders and the opponents of freedom in school to identify it with absence of social direction, or, sometimes, with merely physical unconstraint of movement.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by John Dewey

Princess Elizabeth smiled, and with harmless unconstraint chatted yet a long time with the shrewd and versatile ambassador of the French king.

From The Daughter of an Empress by Nathaniel Greene




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